Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beer Budget...
...small part of the article is of deep concern to me, however. It perpetuates the myth about the cost of the volunteer force. In fact, the active-duty military personnel share of the Defense Department budget has gone down from 31% to 27% since the end of the draft. Retirement, civilian personnel costs and other nonvolunteer force-related costs have gone up, but these increases are not tied to the end of the draft...
...time spinning wheels." U.S. delegates had little hope that the conference would agree to the basic reforms Washington wants: trimming the bloated OAS bureaucracy, assigning the hemisphere's ministates nonvoting status, changing the rules so that the U.S.. which provides 67% of the $72 million OAS budget, would pay no more than 49%. Thus the organization will remain, at least for another year, the loose club de caballeros (gentlemen's club) that it has been for most of its history since it first met in Washington, D.C., as the Pan American Conference...
...Nearly 8% of the nation's work force is unemployed. A deep and chronic balance of payments deficit ?caused largely by oil-price hikes and sluggish exports?threatens the long-term solvency of a nation vitally dependent on foreign trade. To make up for a record $4.3 billion budget deficit last year, the government had to draw on reserves (now down to $4.5 billion from a peak of $6.7 billion in 1973) and borrow heavily abroad...
...goes Newfield's script. He keeps compounding the felons until, surrounded by nothing but villainy, the reader grows weary and even skeptical. Substandard hyperbole ("We realized that behind almost every horror stood a banker") and doctrinaire populism ("They are making a desert and calling it a balanced budget") further reduce the authors' credibility. Invective obscures insight. John Lindsay was not merely an inadequate mayor but "a volunteer cuckold of the permanent government." The clubhouse crowd is condemned as "back-room dreck," though in fact it produces some good administrators...